Alanis Morissette | New Music And Songs | Alanis Morissette About Alanis Morissette Singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette became one of the most unlikely stars of the 1990s on the strength of her third album, Jagged Little Pill. A former child actress turned dance-pop diva, Morissette transformed herself into a confessional alternative singer/songwriter in the vein of Liz Phair and Tori Amos. However, she bolstered that formula with enough pop sensibility, slight hip-hop flourishes, and marketing savvy to become a superstar. Jagged Little Pill, released in 1995, spun off six highly successful singles and earned Morissette several Grammy Awards the following year, including Album of the Year. And she continued to release well-received albums, from the multi-platinum Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie to the self-produced Under Rug Swept. Morissette was born in Ottawa, Canada, and began playing piano and writing songs during her childhood years. She also joined the cast of You Can't Do That on Television, a children's television program.

Using money that she earned on the show, Morissette recorded an independent single, "Fate Stay with Me," which was released when she was only ten years old. She then concentrated on a musical career after leaving the show's cast, signing a music publishing contract when she was 14. The publishing contract led to a record deal with MCA Canada, and Morissette moved to Toronto before releasing her debut album, Alanis, in 1991. Alanis was a collection of pop-oriented dance numbers and ballads that found success in Canada, selling over 100,000 copies and earning the singer a Juno Award for Most Promising Female Artist. However, no other country paid much attention to the record. In 1992, Morissette released Now Is the Time, an album that closely resembled her debut. Like its predecessor, it was a success in Canada, even if its sales did not match those of Alanis. Following the release of Now Is the Time, Morissette relocated to Los Angeles, where she met veteran producer Glen Ballard in early 1994.

Ballard had previously written Michael Jackson's hit single "Man in the Mirror," produced Wilson Phillips' hit debut album, and worked with actor/musician David Hasselhoff. The two decided to work together, and despite their shared experience with mainstream pop, they opted instead to pursue an edgier, alternative rock-oriented direction. The result was Jagged Little Pill, which was released in 1995 on Madonna's label, Maverick Records. On the strength of the angst-ridden single "You Oughta Know," Jagged Little Pill gained attention upon its release in the summer of 1995. The song soon received heavy airplay from alternative radio outlets and MTV, sending the album into the Top Ten and helping it achieve multi-platinum status. Jagged Little Pill's subsequent singles -- "Hand in My Pocket," "All I Really Want," "You Learn," and "Ironic" -- kept the album in the Top Ten for an astounding 69 weeks, and Morissette was nominated for six Grammys in early 1996. She won several of those awards, including Album of the Year and Song of the Year.

While she never managed to replicate the success of Jagged Little Pill, Morissette continued to release well-received albums into the 21st century. Her much-anticipated follow-up, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in the autumn of 1998, setting a record for the highest first-week sales by a female artist. An Unplugged set appeared a year later and featured a cover of the Police's "King of Pain," while 2002's Under Rug Swept saw Morissette writing and producing without the help of collaborators. So-Called Chaos followed in 2004. A year later, she took Jagged Little Pill on the road as an acoustic tour. Those tour dates led to the release of Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, an album originally (and tellingly) sold exclusively through Starbucks outlets. Morissette and her fans had grown up, and Collection -- an 18-track retrospective of her work -- followed in November 2005. But Morissette wasn't done, returning in 2008 with the brooding Flavors of Entanglement, which dealt with the emotional fallout from the dissolution of her engagement with actor Ryan Reynolds.

In 2010, Morissette gave birth to her first child, Ever Imre, with rapper Mario “MC Souleye” Treadway, resulting in 2012's spry and hopeful Havoc and Bright Lights, which focused on spirituality, marriage, and motherhood; it debuted at five on the Billboard Top 200. Over the next few years, Morissette played some acoustic shows, acted, and launched a self-help podcast. Also in 2015, she celebrated the 20th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill through the release of a four-CD Collectors Edition reissue of the album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Album Lyrics | LyricsHall Album lyrics Alanis Morissette Release date: June 1995 Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album (and the first to be released internationally) by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. The album marked a shift in style and genre for Morissette from her previous dance pop sound. As detailed in the article about the seventh track, "You Learn", the title is a metaphor for lessons of life that are hard to accept.

The album was Morissette's breakthrough album, and contained five hits, "You Oughta Know", "Ironic", "You Learn", "Hand in My Pocket", and "Head over Feet". Background and production In 1993, after leaving MCA Records Canada, Morissette moved from her home town of Ottawa to Toronto. Living alone for the first time in her life, she met with a bevy of songwriters, but the results frustrated her. A visit to Nashville a few months later also proved fruitless. Morissette began making trips to Los Angeles and working with as many musicians as possible, in the hopes of meeting a collaborator. During this time, she met producer and songwriter Glen Ballard. According to Ballard, the connection was "instant", and within 30 minutes of meeting each other they had begun experimenting with different sounds in Ballard's home studio in San Fernando Valley, California. Ballard and Morissette penned their first song together, called "The Bottom Line". The turning point in their sessions was the song "Perfect", which was written and recorded in 20 minutes. Morissette improvised the lyrics on the spot, and Ballard played guitar.

The version of the song that appeared on Jagged Little Pill was the only take that the pair recorded. Morissette later revealed that during her stay in L.A., she was robbed on a deserted street by a man with a gun. The writings and brainstormings that eventually made up Jagged Little Pill had not been taken from her purse. After the robbery, Morissette developed an intense and general angst and suffered daily panic attacks. She was hospitalized and attended psychotherapy sessions, but it didn't improve her emotional status. As Morissette later revealed in interviews, she focused all her inner problems on the soul-baring lyrics of the album for her own health. According to Morissette, Ballard was the first collaborator who encouraged her to express her emotions. The demo recording sessions started in 1994 at Ballard's home studio and included only Morissette and the producer, who recorded the songs as they were being written. Ballard provided the rough tracks, playing the guitars, keyboards and programming drum machines, and Morissette played harmonica. The duo sought to write and record one song a day, in twelve- or sixteen-hour shifts, with minimal overdubbing later.

All of Morissette's singing on the album respects that rule, and it was recorded in one or two takes each. The tracks that were redone later in a professional studio use the original demo vocals. The first song to be shown to A&R and record company people was "Perfect", with a simple arrangement containing only Morissette's vocals and Ballard's acoustic guitar. In 1995, around the time that Morissette penned a deal with Maverick Records, the couple took the demos to a studio and started building some new band arrangements for some of them. During the overdub sessions, Flea and Dave Navarro (then Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmates) appeared at the studio, discovered Morissette's work, and offered to play on "You Oughta Know". There are seven known outtakes from the recording sessions: "Keep the Radio On", "Bottom Line", "Beautiful Intent", "Aura", "No Avalon", "Superstar Wonderful Weirdos", and an alternate take of "Ironic" with a lyric change ("It's like ice cream on a freezing day" instead of "It's a black fly in your chardonnay").

Release and reception Maverick Records released Jagged Little Pill in June 1995. Because expectations for the album were low, Scott Welsh (Morissette's manager and long-time friend) and executives at Maverick did not expect the album to sell more than 250,000 copies. It debuted at number 117 on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart. Things quickly changed when a Los Angeles DJ from the influential radio station KROQ began playing "You Oughta Know", the album's first single. The song instantly garnered attention, and a subsequent music video went into heavy rotation on MTV. The subject of the song (long suspected to be ex-boyfriend Dave Coulier of television's Full House, whose relationship with Morissette had soured shortly before the song was recorded), became the most guessed-about antagonist since that of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain". However, it was the hit singles that followed that sent Jagged Little Pill to the top. "Hand in My Pocket" was released as the second single, and then "Ironic", which became Morissette's biggest hit.

"You Learn" and "Head over Feet", the next two singles, kept Jagged Little Pill in the top twenty on the Billboard 200 for over a year. Outside the U.S., "All I Really Want" was released in 1997 as the album's last single, and in Europe "You Learn" was released before "Ironic". The album is considered one of the most successful albums of all time for its many commercial achievements, received awards and cultural resonance, worldwide. The album garnered great success, spending twelve non-consecutive weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart. By 2009, the album had sold 33 million units worldwide. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Jagged Little Pill the nineteenth greatest album of all time. In October 2002, Rolling Stone ranked it number 31 on its Women In Rock - The 50 Essential Albums list, and in 2003 the magazine ranked it number 327 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

The album also holds a title in The Definitive 200 Albums list, in which it is placed at number 26. The album was nominated for six Grammy Awards in 1996, and Morissette won "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance", "Best Rock Song", "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year" (she won all but "Best New Artist" and "Song of the Year"). Up until 2010 she was the youngest person to receive the Album of the Year award, at age 21. Later that year, she embarked on an eighteen-month world tour in support of Jagged Little Pill, beginning in small clubs and ending in large venues. In 1997 she was nominated for two more Grammy Awards: "Record of the Year" and "Best Music Video, Short Form" for "Ironic". The video Jagged Little Pill, Live, which chronicled the bulk of the tour, won a 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Long Form Music Video". In 2005 Morissette re-released an acoustic version of the album, Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, on the tenth anniversary of the original album's release.

This album was originally sold through Starbucks' Hear Music brand in an exclusive six-week deal that ended on July 26, 2005. For the duration of this partnership, music retailer HMV boycotted the sale of Morissette's entire catalogue in Canada. Jagged Little Pill Tweet Jagged Little Pill On 13th June 1995, Alanis Morissette released Jagged Little Pill. The album went on to sell over 30 million copies world-wide and made Morissette the first female Canadian to score a U.S. #1 album. It all happened so quickly. Just four years earlier, Alanis had appeared on the Canadian talent show Star Search performing a version of the Osmonds' "One Bad Apple". She lost to a singing cowboy named Chad. The singerï¿½s fast rise to fame started in 1993, when Morissette's publisher MCA Music introduced her to manager Scott Welch. Welch was impressed by her "spectacular voice", her character and her lyrics. At the time she was still living at home with her parents. After graduating from high school, Morissette moved from Ottawa to Toronto.

The two wrote and recorded Morissette's first internationally released album, Jagged Little Pill, laying all the instruments down themselves as demos. By the spring of 1995, she had signed a deal with Maverick Records (of which Madonna is a co-founder), after every label they had approached had passed on the project. Alanis moved to L.A to record the tracks using session musicians. Shortly after moving there, she was robbed on a deserted street by a man with a gun, although luckily the ideas, lyrics and brainstormings that eventually made up Jagged Little Pill were not taken by the robber, who was only after her money. As an unfortunate consequence, Morissette suffered daily panic attacks, was briefly hospitalised and attended psychotherapy sessions. Amazingly, the majority of the tracks on the finished album contain the original demo recording of her voice, most of which were recorded in one or two takes. Flea and Dave Navarro (then Red Hot Chili Peppers bandmates) happened to be working at the same studio and, on hearing Morissette's work, offered to play on the track "You Oughta Know".

KROQ, the influential Los Angeles modern rock radio station, began playing "You Oughta Know", the album's first single. The song instantly garnered attention for its scathing, explicit lyrics, and a subsequent music video went into heavy rotation on MTV. "All I Really Want" and "Hand In My Pocket" followed, but it was the fourth U.S. single, "Ironic", that was to become Morissette's biggest hit. Written in just fifteen minutes by Morissette and Glen Ballard, the track peaked at #4 in the US. The simple but highly effective video, which had Morissette driving a dark blue 1977 Lincoln Mark V through a winter landscape, also featured the singer playing multiple roles as her passengers. MTV nominated the music video for six MTV Video Music Awards in 1996, winning three of them. The song received two Grammy Award nominations in 1997, for Record of the Year and for Best Short Form Music Video, and the video was listed amongst MTV and VH1's "Greatest Music Videos".

Jagged Little Pill became the best-selling international debut album by a female artist, with more than 16 million copies sold in the U.S.; itï¿½s now sold 33 million copies worldwide, making it the third biggest selling album by a female artist, and the biggest selling debut album. Nominated in 1996 for six Grammy Awards, Jagged Little Pill and Morissette won "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance","Best Rock Song", "Best Rock Album", and "Album of the Year", only missing out on "Best New Artist" and "Song of the Year". Writing this, I dug out my copy of the album, which still sounds great. Iï¿½d forgotten what a full-on rock album it is. In the process, researching Alanis for these writings, I came across a couple of facts I didnï¿½t know: - She is the youngest artist to ever win an "Album of the Year" Grammy (aged 21) and Alanis Morissette is a nudist ï¿½ which I suppose I should have guessed from the video to ï¿½Thank Youï¿½.

MORE YOU MIGHT LIKE Alanis Morissette’s Biography — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at Last.fm Her international debut album Jagged Little Pill (1995) became one of the most successful albums of all time with total worldwide sales estimated at thirty million copies. Six more studio albums followed – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998), Under Rug Swept (2002), Feast On Scraps (2002), So-Called Chaos (2004), Flavors Of Entanglement (2008) and Havoc and Bright Lights (2012) . Early Life Alanis Morissette was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to school teachers Alan and Georgia Morissette. Her father is French Canadian and her mother is Hungarian. She has an older brother, Chad, and a twin brother named Wade. Between the ages of three and six they lived with their parents in Lahr (Black Forest), Germany. Morissette showed a love for singing and songwriting at an early age. When she was 9 years old, Morissette wrote her first song.

With the money saved from her stint on the children's television show You Can't Do That On Television, Morissette released an indie single Fate Stay With Me with the B-side Find The Right Man. In New York City, Morissette landed a spot on Star Search, a popular televised American talent competition with her stage name of Alanis Nadinia. Morissette flew to Los Angeles to appear on the show, but lost after one round. Alanis and Now Is the Time In 1990, Morissette signed with MCA Records Canada and released her full-length debut album, Alanis in 1991 with producer Leslie Howe. At the time, Morissette dropped Nadine from her name and was credited simply as "Alanis". The dance-pop album, which was only released in Canada, went double platinum and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the Top 10 on the Canadian charts. Subsequent singles included "Feel Your Love", "Walk Away" and "Plastic". In 1992, Morissette was nominated for three Juno Awards: Single of the Year, Best Dance Record, and Most Promising Female Vocalist, the last of which she won.

In the same year, she released Now Is the Time , her follow-up to Alanis. The album attempted to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound and its lead single was An Emotion Away , with No Apologies , Real World and (Change Is) Never A Waste Of Time being the other three. However, Now Is the Time sold less than half the number of copies of her debut album, and, with her two album deal with MCA Canada complete, Morissette was without a major label recording contract. Move to Los Angeles In 1993, Morissette moved from her home town of Ottawa to Toronto. Living alone for the first time in her life, Morissette met with a bevy of songwriters, but the results frustrated her. A visit to Nashville a few months later also proved fruitless. Morissette began making trips to Los Angeles and working with as many musicians as possible, in the hopes of meeting a collaborator. During this time, Morissette met with producer and songwriter Glen Ballard . According to Ballard, the connection was "instant" and within 30 minutes of meeting each other, they had begun experimenting with different sounds in Ballard's home studio.

Despite Morissette's naivety, Ballard believed he was dealing with a woman wise beyond her years. Ballard and Morissette penned their first song together called The Bottom Line . The turning point in their sessions was the song Perfect , which was written and recorded in twenty minutes. Morissette improvised the lyrics on the spot to Ballard's delicate guitar strums. The version of the song that appeared on Jagged Little Pill was the only take the pair had ever recorded. Ballard and Morissette recorded the songs on Jagged Little Pill literally as they were being written. According to Morissette, Ballard was the first collaborator who had encouraged her to express her emotions completely and fully without any fear of shame or embarrassment. As a result, Morissette unabashedly shared everything, from her buoyant love of life in You Learn , to her warm infatuations in Head Over Feet , to her darkest, most ruthless revenge fantasies in You Oughta Know . Morissette drew inspiration for her lyrics completely from personal experiences. By the spring of 1995, Morissette penned a deal with Maverick Records.

Jagged Little Pill era (1995–1998) In 1995, at the age of twenty-one, Morissette released her first international album, Jagged Little Pill. Since expectations for the album were low, Morissette's manager and long-time friend Scott Welsh would later admit that he did not expect the album to sell any more than around 250,000 copies. The album debuted at number 118 on the Billboard 200 chart. However, things changed quickly when a Los Angeles DJ from an influential radio station stumbled onto You Oughta Know and began playing it non-stop. The song instantly garnered attention and a subsequent video went into heavy rotation on MTV. Listeners were shocked, unnerved, and delighted by the song's use of profanity, rare for a female artist at the time. The subject of the song, an ex-boyfriend, became the most guessed about protagonist since "You're So Vain." While "You Oughta Know" was a hit, it was the bevy of hit singles that followed that sent Jagged Little Pill to its meteoric rise to the top.

Following Hand in My Pocket , the third single, Ironic , went on to become Morissette's biggest hit. She received heavy criticism for the lyrics, however, when it became apparent that many of the situations described by Morissette did not actually qualify as being 'ironic'. Indeed, the Irish comedian Ed Byrne based a significant part of his stand-up act on pointing out the lack of irony in the song. "You Learn" and "Head Over Feet", the fourth and fifth singles, respectively, kept Jagged Little Pill on the Billboard Top 20 charts for over a year. Jagged Little Pill was a phenomenal success. It went on to sell 16 million copies in the United States alone, over 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful records of all time. Indeed in Ireland just as Under Rug Swept was released in 2002, Jagged Little Pill (6 years after its release) re-entered the album charts on 21 February 2002 at #72 and reached a peak of #19 on 7 March . It took 9 weeks before it departed the charts again on 2 May of that year.

Morissette was dismissed by some as a record industry puppet. She was attacked for collaborating with producer and supposed image-maker Glen Ballard, though Morissette was responsible for all of Pill's lyrics and much of the album's music, and though such a collaboration was not uncommon for many solo artists at the time. Her early albums in Canada also proved a hinderance for her respectability, particularly in her native country. Despite this setback, the album was nominated for six Grammy Awards. At the 1996 ceremony, Morissette performed a moving rendition of "You Oughta Know", one that all but drained the anger from the song, leaving only an air of sorrow and remorse. That night, Morissette won awards for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Album, and the big one, Best Album. Later that year, Morissette embarked on an eighteen-month world tour in support of Jagged Little Pill, beginning in small clubs and ending in large venues. The DVD Jagged Little Pill, Live chronicled the bulk of this tour.

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie era (1998–2002) In 1998, Morissette recorded Uninvited , a song from the soundtrack to the film City of Angels. The track was never officially released as a single (only as a promo one), but nevertheless received widespread radio airplay. Later that year, Morissette released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie , once again collaborating with Glen Ballard. Fans and critics alike were unprepared for Morissette's new songwriting approach, as most of the songs on the disc, including The Couch and Unsent , challenged traditional song formulas. Nowdays, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is considered the biggest highlight of Alanis in terms of fans' opinions. Upon release, the album started selling extremely well. Privately, the label hoped for a million copies upon initial release. It sold about half of that. Nevertheless, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, breaking the record for the most albums sold in a single week by a female artist, with sales at 469,000 copies (eventually eclipsed by Britney Spears 's Oops!... I Did It Again album).

As a follow-up to Jagged Little Pill, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie had very little staying power. Its wordy, personal lyrics turned many fans off and after only 28 weeks, it left the Billboard 200, selling 2.5 million, a huge drop from Jagged. Worldwide, the album sold about 7 million copies. However, it received positive reviews, including a four-star review from Rolling Stone magazine. In 1999, the song "Uninvited" won two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. The first single, "Thank U", was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The video for this song, which featured Morissette in the nude, generated mild controversy. That same year, Morissette released the live acoustic album MTV Unplugged. In 1999, Alanis Morissette briefly returned to acting, appearing as God in the Kevin Smith film Dogma. Smith, who claimed to be a big fan of Morissette's, asked her to be in the film several times.

She had to turn down the female lead and by the time her schedule allowed her to participate in the film, only the role of God, which involves virtually no speech and only an appearance at the very end of the film, was left. She also wrote and produced a song for the movie's soundtrack, that song being Still . She also appeared on the hit HBO comedies Sex and the City and Curb Your Enthusiasm and starred in the play The Vagina Monologues. Under Rug Swept era (2002–2004) Alanis Morissette on stage at the Brazil Music Festival, 2003In 2002, after a four year absence, Alanis Morissette released her third international studio album Under Rug Swept , with the notable absence of Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie collaborator Glen Ballard. For the first time, Morissette took on the role of sole writer and producer. The album spawned the hit single Hands Clean , while the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 215,000 in the first week.

Under Rug Swept would eventually sell close to a million copies in the United States alone, though only "Hands Clean" received any substantial radio airplay. The album was overlooked by the Grammy Awards, but Morissette won yet another Juno Award for Producer of the Year. In December 2002, Morissette released a CD/DVD combination package, Feast on Scraps , which included live concert footage and eight previously unreleased songs from the Under Rug Swept recording sessions. The album was nominated for a Juno Music DVD of the Year award. In November 2003, Morissette appeared in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated as Sunny Jacobs, a death row inmate freed after proof surfaced that she hadn't committed the crime, a role that she would revisit three years later, in Spring of 2006. So-Called Chaos era (2004) May 2004 saw the release of Morissette’s 4th international studio album, So-Called Chaos . While all song writing on the album was credited to Morissette, the album was co-produced with Tim Thorney and John Shanks.

Selling over 115,000 copies in its first week of release, the album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart to generally favorable critical reviews. The album’s lead single, an optimistic ballad called Everything , was released in March 2004 and saw some commercial success on adult contemporary radio. In an effort to avoid a censor "bleep" in the first line of the song, the radio and music video versions changed the word "asshole" to "nightmare". The radio and music video version also edited out several verses from the album version. Two other singles, Out Is Through and Eight Easy Steps , soon followed but neither matched the success of "Everything". A dance mix of "Eight Easy Steps" was a top ten hit on US dance music charts. In June 2004, Morissette announced her engagement to actor and fellow Canadian, Ryan Reynolds. Morissette expanded her own acting credentials with the July release of the Cole Porter biographical film De-Lovely, in which she performed the song Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love and had a brief acting role as an anonymous stage performer.

Her recording of the song was featured on the film's soundtrack and on The Collection. Jagged Little Pill:Acoustic and The Collection era (2005) On February 11, 2005, Morissette became a naturalized citizen of the United States while still maintaining her Canadian citizenship. Morissette refers to herself as a Canadian–American. Also in February 2005 she made a guest appearance on the Canadian television show Degrassi: The Next Generation along with Dogma co-star Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith. To commemorate the 10 year anniversary of Jagged Little Pill, Morissette released a studio acoustic version on June 13, 2005 entitled Jagged Little Pill Acoustic . CNN reported that the album would be exclusively released through Starbucks' Hear Music retail concept through their coffee shops for a six-week run, much like Ray Charles 's successful album Genius Loves Company . This move caused much controversy, with companies such as HMV in Canada removing their entire Morissette catalog for the duration of the deal in protest. The album sold about 310 000 copies. The album went into wide release to all retail chains the last week of July.

This version included enhanced features not included on the Starbuck’s release version. The accompanying Jagged Little Pill: Acoustic tour ran for two months in the summer of 2005, with Morissette playing in small, intimate theatre venues. On October 14th, Morissette released a cover of the 1991 Seal song Crazy as the first single from her greatest hits album, Alanis Morissette: The Collection . The song reached number 9 on the Billboard Top 40 chart during the week of December 5. The Collection was released on November 15, 2005, followed by a limited edition version of the album on December 6, 2005. The limited edition features a DVD including a documentary with videos of two unreleased songs from Morissette’s 1996 "Can’t Not" Tour: King of Intimation and Can't Not (the latter appeared in a reworked version on Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie). The DVD also includes a 90 second clip of the unreleased video for the song "Joining You".

Morissette contributed a song entitled Wunderkind to the soundtrack of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song. Flavors of Entanglement Morissette's latest studio work, " Flavors Of Entanglement " (2008), was released June 2nd internationally and June 10th in the United States. Production of this album was done Guy Sigsworth ( Madonna , Frou Frou ) and the album is said by Morissette and Sigsworth to have a very different, unique sound and it drifts apart from Morissette's past works. She even included male choruses in one of her songs, something she's never done before. Morissette said she wrote 25 songs for Flavors, but only 11 of those made the cut. On March 6th, 2008, the final track list was published via her official website: 1. Citizen of the Planet 2. Underneath 6. In Praise of the Vulnerable Man 7. Moratorium 9. Giggling Again for No Reason 10.

Tapes 11. Incomplete The other songs will be released in some other manner as Morissette said herself. Some of the other titles are "On The Tequila", "Limbo No More", "It's a Bitch To Grow Up", "Madness", "I Am", "Orchid", "Wounded Leading Wounded" Underneath , the lead single from Flavors of Entanglement , was released officially on April 15, 2008 in the United States and a month later in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The single was originally featured at the Elevate Film Festival, a festival of films that encourage environmental activism, on September 15, 2007. The original video featured Morissette and others swimming underwater. An official video was released with the single, featuring contrasts between Alanis' environmental activism and her romantic life, and sending the message that change a person wants to see must start in their heart.

Havoc and Bright Lights Alanis Morissette to Release 'Jagged Little Pill: Collector's Edition' - Rolling Stone Alanis Morissette to Release 'Jagged Little Pill: Collector's Edition' Alanis Morissette to Release 'Jagged Little Pill: Collector's Edition' Reissue to include previously unreleased demos and London concert featuring members of Foo Fighters and Jane's Addiction Alanis Morissette will mark the 20th anniversary of 'Jagged Little Pill' with the release of a massive collector's edition reissue Credit: Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images All Stories Following the 20th anniversary of Alanis Morissette 's landmark album Jagged Little Pill , the singer-songwriter will release a collector's edition of the LP, complete with unreleased demos and a full live concert from the year of its release. The collection will be available via Rhino on October 30th.

More News Dave Coulier Denies Alanis Morissette's 'You Oughta Know' Is About Him "First of all, the guy in that song is a real a-hole, so I don't want to be that guy," says comedian "I'm super excited to share this music with a whole new generation of peeps, as well as people who have grown along with me over the last two decades," Morissette said in a statement. "Thankfully, these songs have stood the test of time for me, and in their timelessness, I am thrilled to honor and reflect on them as well as the last 20 years of my life and career." The massive collector's edition will feature four discs, including a remastered version of the original album and previously released acoustic take on the LP. Disc Two of the collection contains 10 unreleased demos recorded before, during and after the album's release. The demos will include "The Bottom Line," the first song Morissette wrote with the album's producer Glen Ballard. The full live concert included in the reissue was recorded at London venue Subterranea on September 28th, 1995.

At the show, her touring band Sexual Chocolate, which included Jane's Addiction's Chris Chaney on bass and Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins on drums, backed her. To make the collector's edition even more special, Morissette will also include various ephemera from her personal collection in the book, including never-before-seen photos. She also wrote a reflective essay on the album and that era of her life. Demo Disc track list: Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill CD Album Alanis Morissette > Jagged Little Pill CD music Product Description Jagged Little Pill album for sale by Alanis Morissette was released Jun 13, 1995 on the Maverick/Reprise label. JAGGED LITTLE PILL won the 1996 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Rock Album. "You Oughta Know" won the Grammys for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Jagged Little Pill songs. "You Oughta Know" was also nominated for Song Of The Year, and Alanis Morissette was nominated for Best New Artist Jagged Little Pill album for sale. "Ironic" was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Award for Record Of The Year.

Jagged Little Pill CD music contains a single disc with 13 songs. ... See Full Description Jagged Little Pill buy CD music Product Reviews Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.136) - Ranked # 31 in Rolling Stone's "Women in Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.60) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Spin (12/95, p.63) - Ranked #16 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '95.' Q (10/01, p.48) - Ranked #42 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" Q (12/99, p.84) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s." Q (2/96, p.66) - Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995.

Q (9/95, p.118) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Caught somewhere between Tori Amos and a souped up Liz Phair, just a few bars of the opening `All I Really Want' should be enough to convince that she really is a bit special..." Melody Maker (9/9/95, p.47) - 7 (out of 10) - "...sufficient a mixture of clean-cut looks and post-teen angst to be pop's very own Winona Ryder. Graphic enough in her lyrics, yet demographic enough in post-grunge sound to be the mainstream Liz Phair....Even more amazingly, she's quite good....if this is illusion, Alanis Morissette is mighty good at using it..." Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #32 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Album Track Listing Trk I love this cd, it's awesome By ivory.elliott (Detriot, MI) (1) Angry White Female Such vitriol this album brings upon in songs about hating men "You Oughta Know" "Right Through You" "Not the Doctor and "Wake Up" to songs about life "All I Really Want" "Hand In My Pocket" "You Learn" "Ironic" to songs about being abused as a child "Forgiven" "Mary Jane" and "Perfect". By bent4alanismorissette (Charlotte, NC) (0) One word:Wonderfull (actually 3) The Beautiful yet Melancholy voice of Alanis rains supreme in Jagged Little Pill. All Songs of this Cd are Great and should be listened to always. By a reviewer (Hyattsville, Md) (0) (0) defintely the best! i hope i will hav eall the cd of Alanis morisette ireally love her songs even when im still age 11 up to now im 29. By Michelle (Manila Philippines) (0) irritated this was my favorite cd growing up.

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This is a limitation placed on us by the record labels. Alanis Morissette | Rolling Stone artists > A > Alanis Morissette > Bio Alanis Morissette Bio Alanis Morissette pulled off one of the most successful second acts in rock history in the summer of 1995, when the former teen dance-pop star reinvented herself as the undisputed queen of alt-rock angst with Jagged Little Pill and its vitriolic lead single, "You Oughta Know." The album went on to sell 16 million copies in the U.S., surpassing the record for a female solo artist previously set by her label boss, Madonna. Morissette (along with a twin brother) was born in 1974 to a couple of educators in Ottawa, Ontario. She showed an early interest in performing; she began piano lessons at age six, penned her first song at nine, and landed an acting gig on the Nickelodeon children's television series You Can't Do That on Television at age 10.

In 1987 she used part of her TV earnings to finance a self-released single, "Fate Stay With Me," which in turn led to a publishing deal and her signing to MCA in Canada. Although both Alaniss (1991) and Now This Is the Time (1992) sold well enough to make Morissette a moderately successful pop star in Canada (where she was given a Juno Award for Most Promising Female Artist in 1992), neither album made any impact south of the border. A fortuitous move to L.A. in 1994, however, led the 20-year-old-singer to Glen Ballard, a producer/songwriter who had honed his craft working under Quincy Jones and writing and producing hits for Michael Jackson ("Man in the Mirror") and Wilson Phillips. Together, Morissette and Ballard quickly hammered out the aggressive rock songs that would become Jagged Little Pill. Their demos landed Morissette a new record deal with Madonna's Warner Bros. subsidiary, Maverick Records.

Released in June 1995, Jagged Little Pill (#1) spawned a handful of Modern Rock and crossover pop hits, beginning with the bitter breakup rant, "You Oughta Know" (#13, 1995), and continuing with "Hand in My Pocket" (#15, 1995), "All I Really Want" (#65, 1995), "Ironic" (#4, 1996), and "You Learn" (#6, 1996). Pill would also earn Morissette four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. By the time she released 1998's decidedly lower-key Eastern-music-inspired Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (#1), Jagged Little Pill had sold close to 28 million copies worldwide. Inevitably, given the runaway success of its predecessor, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (coproduced by Morissette and Ballard) was judged a commercial disappointment despite domestic sales of 3 million.

Nevertheless, the album's "Thank U" climbed to #17, while "Uninvited," plucked from the 1998 soundtrack to the Nicholas Cage movie City of Angels, earned Morissette two more Grammys (including Best Rock Song). In 1999 Morissette embarked on a co-headlining tour with fellow alt-rock singer/songwriter Tori Amos, and attracted some controversy by playing the role of God in the Kevin Smith comedy Dogma. Meanwhile, sales of her live MTV Unplugged set topped off at half a million, and the album peaked at #63. Morissette was scheduled to deliver a new studio album – her first self-produced effort – by the end of 2001. This biography originally appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon & Schuster, 2001).

Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill - Art & Entertainment Music ‎ > ‎ Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette is one of the defining singers of the 90s music scene and she had her first success with her hit album Jagged Little Pill released 1995 which has sold 30 million units throughout the world and which has won her the great accolade of having the biggest selling debut album (worldwide) of all time. As we will see this is no mean feat for a singer songwriter of her pedigree. Having been born in Ottawa, Canada on 1st June 1974 (she was born only 12 minutes after her twin brother Richard). Her unusual name being taken from her father Alan Richard Morissette (it is not clear why her father did not stick with convention and call his Son Alan - although history shows that if he wanted his name "out there" he made the correct choice) Alanis moved out from Ottawa when she graduated from high school, with her writing and recording Jagged Little Pill with the idea that it would build her a small following for her to build upon with a bigger record later.

She had a lucky break when a DJ from the LA radio station KROQ began to play You Oughta Know, giving it great exposure and it was then added to the MTV play list which gave her work exposure to the entire US and ultimately the whole world. From the album by far the biggest of the 90s songs was Ironic which was released on 27th February 1996 in the us and the 1st April in the UK. It reached high positions in almost every chart in the world, including top spots in the US Mainstream Top 40 and in her native Canadian RPM chart. She is a very talented musician in her own right and as well as playing the piano and guitar she is also credited with playing the flute, harmonica and bass guitar. This is not mentioning her very distinctive singing voice. In June 2005 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette released an acoustic version of the album, this was through an exclusive deal with Starbuck's "hear music".

This follow up recording did not reach the same heights as the original, however, which is to be expected due to the number of copies sold in the original release but also this was partially due to the slightly strange distribution arrangement Alanis Morissette continues to write and release music and has taken to acting in shows such as Lovespring International and Weeds. She has also recently landed the part of Sylvia in the film adaptation of Philip K Dick's book Radio Free Albemuth. The part is about a woman who has an unexpected remission from the cancer Lymphoma. This is another example of her drive to play parts in TV and films which she feels connected with in some way Hope this information is useful for you. Everything you need to know about Music or Search this site at the top.

Question: Who released the 1995 hit album "Jagged Little Pill"?
Answer: Alanis Morrisette